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Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch

Walsch had a dialogue with God over the course of a year and this book is the written manifestation of that dialogue.

Key Takeaways

Only the highest thoughts and feelings come from God. The highest feeling contains joy, highest thought contains truth, grandest feeling is love. These three are interchangeable and of utmost importance

Listen to experience above anything as this is the best way God can communicate

Thankfulness is the most powerful way to be happy. Never supplicate, just be grateful

A true prayer doesn’t contain “necessary” requests, they are prayers of thanksgiving and the person would be completely fine if prayer answered or not

God does not care about the process, what you do, but cares deeply about the outcome

In truth there are only two emotions – fear and love. All human actions based on one or the other and this is the “sponsoring” thought. Make love your sponsoring thought

Purpose of life – experience the fullest glory in all that you do

Life is not a process of discovery but one of creation. You are creating yourself. Do not seek to find out who you are but who you want to be

Nothing is bad or painful in and of itself – we think and make it that way. It is an erroneous way of thinking. Eliminate judgment of everything

It is a sin is to create yourself based on the experiences of others

Nothing that you see exists that wasn’t first a thought

No conditions are good nor bad, they just are. They are all temporary as well

Go to your highest thought of yourself and imagine how you would live and how you would react to others. Now live it and eliminate things, people or thoughts which do not correspond with this vision

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go and nothing to do to get to heaven. You are already there

To live life without expectation, without needing certain results is freedom, is godliness

What I got out of it

An incredibly powerful book and even if you are not religious or are skeptical that Walsch truly had a dialogue with God, this book offers incredible tips on how to life a meaningful, happy and loving life.